It was a great day to stay inside! Quite chilly out, so I decided to do some projects with the kids. I cannot take credit for these projects...both of them were done by two separate friends during the same week...ironically, they were both acorn-related!
Bradlee LOVES acorns. He gathers them whenever he finds them! My dad, who has an oak tree in his backyard, taught both kids to put the acorn caps on their fingers and then draw faces on the pads of their fingers to make finger puppets!!! Here are our projects today:
Jeweled Acorns (from Kate, Lauren, Annie and Caroline)!!
First, color the inside of the acorn caps with markers:
Be patient while Mommy squirts Elmer's glue into the caps, then smile for a picture!
Now we wait....for.....the.....glue......to.......dry....... (we also put glitter in some of the caps!)
Edible Acorns (from Monique, Samantha and Sophia)!!
Emma and Bradlee unwrapped the Hershey Kisses (milk chocolate and almond) while Mommy used frosting to "attach" them to the Mini Nilla Wafers!
Emma and Mommy used melted chocolate to "attach" the butterscotch chips to the tops of the Nilla Wafers to look like the "stems"!
Don't they look like acorns???
To finish the day, the kids and I watched the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's live webcast of their concert tonight. It was called "Cirque de la Symphonie". It was live music provided by the orchestra with members of Cirque du Solei performing acts with it! We heard a ton of music, some of it, the kids recognized!!! :)
